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[initiatesnpc]

Date & Time: Jan 12th to Jan 19th (real time), July 11th to July 18th (historical time), 1884
Location: Black Rock, New Mexico, USA
Characters: All transports
Summary: Fearing UE reprisal, the Initiative corrals all transports and shoos them onto a mission back to the Wild West, to vote Gerald "Moony" Jackson in as Mayor of Black Rock. Transports are encouraged to used all their wiles to encourage townsfolk to vote in favor of him, too. Other than that, they're free to roam as they will for 7 whole days! Good luck finding food and shelter, masses. (See the OOC post for more information.)

The Initiative had been terse and rushed as they gathered the transports into the Transporter room, and anyone unwilling to participate will have been forcibly hurried along. The Initiative employees had seemed distracted and worried, and unwilling to stand around and debate. It was time to move. The teleportation had gone off without a hitch, and a roomful of transports have been treated, quite suddenly, to a broad and sunny blue sky, and especially to the heat of mid July in the American West.

Enjoy your weeklong stay in Black Rock, New Mexico! The town is small and sleepy, with just 3 good saloons and one questionable (but considerably cheaper) one. There are a few inns, but these inns aren't quite prepared to room a sudden influx of over 300 travelers, and some people might have to bunk up or get creative with their sleeping arrangements. If you sleep in an inn at all, of course. There's plenty of unexplored wilderness out there to sleep in instead, isn't there? Just make sure to check your boots for scorpions in the morning.

The only instructions are "vote for Gerald "Moony" Jackson for Mayor, and try to convince others to do the same", and you've been given just enough money to cover a very sparse room and board for 7 days, if you don't spend it in anything else.

So, how do you spend your time?

Edit: Overflow log!

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[payback]

[Wow, Initiative. In her opinion this is a paltry sum and a sad way to put up the people fighting in your army!

Whatever. Her ire blows over soon enough; she can live with a sparse week, and scheme to get a little pocket money. What can she do? She asks herself and then asks advice, and a short while later - well, a young lady can find a room and take in mending.

This place is too hot but it's a nice change from the mostly-dreary hold. Rin sits on the porch and works on her mending without much urgency, with a glass of cool tea (tepid in the July heat) balanced on the porch rail. The war feels very far away, the ambiance is sleepy. It's not so bad to have a quiet trip back in time and the only real job being to cast a vote.]

[breakingskylark]

[Unfortunately for her there's a rather bored teenager looking for something to amuse himself with. When he sees her there minding her own business, clearly he has to interfere. But not directly at first, no. That would be too easy. Mukuro stays out of sight and in his place his white owl Mukurou flies down to land on the porch next to her.

It's easy to stay on the other side of the building to hide, he can see everything from the owls eyes as if they were his own so it's really the perfect way to bother someone without them realizing he's the one bothering them.

Though it's questionable what a snowy owl is doing in the desert in the middle of the day, it doesn't seem at all bothered by the heat. It just hops closer to her, looking at what she's mending with mild interest and just trying to get her attention.]

[payback]

[She's lost in thought and heat sulk it seems, as her reaction to the rustly approach of a wild creature far from home is rather delayed. But give her a moment and she'll look up with a start, eyes dark and clear. She regards the creature in blank silence with surprise a quiet movement in her.

This is not as shocking as it might be. Rin knows at least one person who can transform into animals. After a moment she ventures:] Hello.

[caligulas_aquarium]

[Eridan just kinda pops up outta nowhere, slumped against the closest surface. He's being a tad overdramatic right now but FOR GODS SAKE IT'S SO HOT RIN HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW HOT IT IS.]

What's that you're drinkin'.

[payback]

[She rolls her eyes without lifting her head, pulling the thread through cloth and tug-tugging it firm before she even deigns to give him a look.]

It's chilled tea.

What are you doing here?

[caligulas_aquarium]

Dying.

[Yep.]

Unless I get somethin' to drink soon I'm just gonna turn to dust at this rate.

[payback]

[She outright snickers at him. Were you expecting sympathy, Eridan?]

I'll lend you a sip of this tea if you say please.

[caligulas_aquarium]

[Well when garnering pity or sympathy doesn't work he only has one other option tbh.]

What!?

Listen, I'm not about to beg for somethin' so unimportant from a pleb like you so either show a bit a decency for once in your life an' help me out here or I'm just gonna take it.

[payback]

[She snatches that tea right off the railing so fast, Eridan. And sips it demurely as she watches him. After a refreshing swallow -]

If you really want it it's not that big a deal, right?

[implying]

[ Vanadi is not enjoying himself in this heat. He can take a little of it, sure, but a week? Ugh. He can feel his system complaining too. And not to mention the sand that gets anywhere, and how long sleeves are suddenly not at all desirable.

He fairly melts into a seat next to her, head tipping back with a heavy sigh. ]

You seem relatively intact, my dear. [ It's hard to summon up the usual cheery tones, but at least he's still got the pet names going. He's not dead yet. ] What's your secret?

[payback]

[Rin slides him a glance before going back to her mending. It feels comfortable, to work and talk. It's been a while since she's done that.]

Stay in the shade, drink a lot of things, and don't move much. Or at all. Did you vote?

[implying]

Not yet. [ He drops a wrist over the top of his mask above his eyes, not even caring if it will look like it's hovering above his face to any non-transport. ] Are the booths even open? More importantly, do you suppose I might have someone carry me there?

[payback]

Have some tea and relax a while. We have a week. It'll keep.

Why are you even wearing that? [That is to say, the mask.]

[implying]

It's fashionable.

[ That's in a mumble, instinctive, and not at all convincing this round. Which he realizes, so, time to tack on a diversionary technique: ]

Why do you wear a shirt? You'd be perfectly lovely without. [ err. he hopes that one wasn't too rude. Grumpiness may be catching up with him. ]

[encourage]

( Sakura finds all the heat energy sapping, grateful on some level it's not humid on top of the rest to drive her absolutely batty. Heat is something she has to be careful of, much as she watches for sand creeping insidiously into her joints.

She didn't want to deal with finding a mechanic out here, not right now. )

How goes the mending?

( She asks as she sits herself down next to Rin, shading her eyes and looking over at the other woman. )

[payback]

[Rin purses her lips momentarily before she glances back to Sakura. Not unfriendly, but watchful again. The needle gets jabbed through thick cloth.]

It's not too bad. I'll have to quit when it gets dark. I'm not going to bother with it by candlelight.

How are you?

[encourage]

Better for your eyes if you don't.

( Sakura smiles, shoulders relaxing as she looks back out at the dusty road. )

Hot. Pretty much like everyone else.

( Only with her legs covered for once, trying to mitigate some of the inevitable heat they generated under the relentless sun. )

[payback]

Want some tea? I'll ask them to bring you a glass.

[encourage]

Is it halfway decent?

( The question's rhetorical in the end; Sakura nods. )

That'd be nice, thank you.

[vinovidivici]

[ Claire almost rides by the young lady sewing on the porch with just a tip of his hat, but a second later he does a double take and pulls Pancake up sharply. It's been months and months but that's definitely - ]

Rin! [ He reaches up to tug the bandana down from his face - leaving a strip of pink sunburn over his eyes as he blinks at her. ]

[payback]

Overflow thread here!

[gevurah]

[ As much as Kate actually wants to explore this town some more, running around in the sun for hours on end can and will prove unwise at some point. Eventually she takes retreat on the porch, safe from the sun's hot rays and looking for her canteen of water.

She recognized Rin the moment she saw her and gives a polite smile in greeting. Hello, she's got pants this time and she's (kind of) sorry their first meeting lacked it initially. ]

[payback]

Overflow thread here!

[bittertears]

Ah, good day Miss Rin.

[she says, having spotted her on the porch.]

Have you found something else to busy yourself with?

[payback]

Overflow thread here!